Monthly Roundup: November Movie Watching Recap

Bye November! Wow, just a month left of 2012...

Wow, almost an entire year has gone by. I feel like November flew by especially fast, perhaps because it’s a pretty busy one, what with Thanksgiving and I’m also preparing for my 2-week vacation to my home country Indonesia and Hawaii coming up in a week. So a lot of shopping for family members, etc. and also researching for our trip. As a blogger I also hit a couple of milestones this month: FlixChatter hitting its 1000th post in early November and I’ve finally got advanced screening privileges courtesy of Allied Marketing Group as I’m now on their Press List. Wahoo!

The month following TCFF where I watched the most movies in a month all year, this is actually the slowest month in terms of cinema trip. I’ve only gone to the cinema to see Skyfall and an advanced screening of Hitchcock, that’s it!

Re-watch:

Overall it’s been kind of a slow month for movie-watching and December perhaps won’t be much better either with our two-weeks vacation. I do have a few advanced screenings of movies I’ve been hugely anticipating, it’s just the reviews will come after my vacation at the end of the month.

Favorite November Movie:

Kinda hard to beat this one… it’s always nice when the one movie you highly anticipated did not disappoint!

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So, what movies did you get to see last month and which one is your favorite?

42 thoughts on “Monthly Roundup: November Movie Watching Recap”

Great piece of work with your ‘A to Z’ Blog-a-thon. Was surprised and pleased to see such a well thought out, diverse array of talents.

I did manage to catch ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ a few weeks back. A very well written and laid out adult, sometimes brutal ‘Who Done It?’ that doesn’t come close to insulting intelligences as layers are peeled away.

Written by Stephen Zalilian and dripping with slushy mood and intrigue. Zailian also directed ‘Searching For Bobby Fischer’ back in 1993. Excellent, well rounded, believable characters all around. With a surprisingly wimpy, non-Bondian, every guy, Daniel Craig in the lead role.

Daniel Craig is not in ‘Searching for Bobby Fischer’. Though it was directed by the same guy wrote the screenplay for ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’. Which has Craig as the lead character.

And since I liken your sensibilities in film to be just a bit bolder than those of my older sister. There are a few scenes in ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ that probably would not set well with you.

Yeah Ruth I think Dragon Tattoo might be too intense for your liking, they actually followed the book very close, the graphic scenes I meant. For people who’ve never read the book, the scenes might be too intense.

Yeah Skyfall was the only movie I saw in theater last month and of course I thought it was great since I already saw it twice. The other new movie I saw was The Amazing Spider-Man which I thought was a snoozer, totally unnecessary retelling of Spiderman’s origin.

Have fun on your vacation, if you can get to Maui and do a helicopter ride into “Jurassic Park” Island. It’s pretty cool.

Great choice! I got to see more movies than usual in the month of November but out of all of them I would have to put Skyfall at the top also. It was a really great month for movies though. Flight, Lincoln…

So… when we get to meet later in Jakarta, can I tag along with you to Hawaii? I’m pretty small, so I’ll fit perfectly into your suitcase. Just give me a lot of sedatives and I won’t make a fuss. What say you? 😛

Btw, I’ve just read your Movie Alphabet blogathon and was completely attempted to participated. But I’m pretty sure it’d be way too late by now, so I’m going to keep a lookout for the next one 🙂

PS: It feels wrong leaving a comment on your blog without saying anything about movies, so I’m just going to say this: Skyfall is actually the only movie I saw in theater last month, therefore I’m choosing it as my favorite November movie, hahaha..

I’ll be all over the state, actually. My family lives up north and my girlfriend’s parents are near Detroit, so we’ll be hitting up both. It’s been a while since we have been there, so it will be good fun, but it’s no Hawaii or Indonesia. 🙂

How do those advanced screenings work? I have been to a few, but I still had to wait in line for hours to get in and grab a good seat. Are they similar, or is it easier to get in?

Nice round-up. A slower month if you compare it to October but not a terribly slow one. Again, have lots of fun on your upcoming vacation. Take a break from the internet and enjoy the beach and the warmer weather 😉

My favorite November films were De Rouille et D’os and Killer Joe 🙂 I saw more films in Novembre than the previous month, I think.

This year has flown by. Can’t believe there’s 28 days left in the year :O

Hi Fernando, I guess I didn’t realize how few movies I saw as it was quite a hectic month. I am looking forward to a break from the computer though, ahah.

So have you bought your Christmas presents yet? Not sure if that’s a tradition in Mexico as well. It wasn’t that way when I grew up, we only give presents for our immediate family, but not friends or even aunts/uncles.

Yes, we do that here, too. And no, I haven’t bought them yet. I’m waiting for my Christmas bonus. I’m only getting presents for my immediate family and not for aunts, uncles or cousins. I have a pretty big family and if I got presents for everybody, I’d go broke! haha. With my close friends and also here at work, we’re doing a Secret Santa kind of thing so that everybody has to get only one present, so that’s great.

Hello I’m Ruth!

Film is in my blood. LOVE movies of all genres, from Jane Austen to James Bond. Official blogger for the Twin Cities Film Fest (TCFF). I’ve wrote and produced my first short film » HEARTS WANT in 2017 and currently working on developing the full story as a feature film.